Business Reading Circle Objectives

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  To improve your reading rate and comprehension
  
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  To build your business vocabulary
  
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  To build skills in reading business-related content
  
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  To differentiate between main points and details
  
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  To identify the purpose of the message
  
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  To interpret sequence and location signals, implied meanings to infer the correct sequence
  
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  To distinguish facts from opinions
  
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  To evaluate ideas in the text to draw conclusion
  

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  Select a business-related topic from any credible source: newspaper, magazine, Internet
  
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  Read it and ensure you understand the information that is presented
  
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  Select the main points from the article
  
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  Choose maximum 3 words from the article and find the definitions of those words, part of speech, and pronunciation
  
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  Present it to the class (no more than five minutes)
  
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    Title
    
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    Source information
    
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    Vocabulary
    
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    Main points from article
    
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    Your opinion of the article
    

End of presentation, give your opinion of the article, e.g.

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  Topic is in the field you would like to work in
  
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  Information is new and interesting
  
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  Vocabulary is rich and easy to understand words in context
  
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  Article is easy to understand, for example.
  
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  Information is useful for business and non-business audience
  
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  Article was complicated and hard to follow
  
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  The examples used did not help you understand the content
  
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  Which parts were informative and which parts were not
  

Credit the source from which you took information—include:

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  Title
  
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  Publication
  
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  Date
  
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  Writers
  

PowerPoint is NOT necessary for this activity